Scientific life. Congresses, conferences, and symposia The study of the military affairs of the peoples of Eurasia in antiquity and the Middle Ages is one of the promising areas of modern archaeological science in Russia, the CIS countries and European countries. Over the past decades, weapons studies have been conducted in many scientific centers of these countries, scientific conferences on this issue have been organized, and scientific works on the history of wars, weapons, and the art of war have been published. The exchange of information contributes to the intensification and development of scientific research in the field of military history. One of the thematic forums devoted to the problems of studying weapons, horse harness and costumes of nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppes in ancient times and the Middle Ages was the All - Russian scientific conference "Equipment of nomads of Eurasia", held on September 21-25, 2005 in Barnaul by Altai State University. It was attended by archaeologists, experts in the history of weapons and heraldry from scientific institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, universities and museums in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Barnaul, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk, Gorno-Altaisk, Kemerovo, Shchuchinsk. Among them were researchers from the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Altaistics, teachers and employees of the Altai, Barnaul Pedagogical, Gorno-Altai, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Pedagogical, Krasnoyarsk Universities, the State Historical Museum, the State Hermitage Museum, the Kuznetsk Fortress Museum, the University of Defense of Kazakhstan, as well as foreign guests. The conference was held in the framework of a plenary session and three thematic sections. The work of the plenary session "Theoretical foundations of the study of equipment of nomads of Eurasia" was opened by the chairman of the organizing committee A . A. Tishkin (Barnaul), ... Читать далее